Sentences with phrase «out of aluminum tubes»

In the early 1960s, astronauts on the Mercury space missions sucked applesauce out of aluminum tubes.

The result of this insight was Gossamer Condor, a flimsy, ungainly contraption fashioned out of aluminum tubing, balsa wood, piano wire, and high - tech plastic wrap.

Not exact matches

In the bent pole of aluminum blinds, apparently folded up and fallen to the floor, one could almost see a white fluorescent tube that Dan Flavin had left out to die.

There were many surprising passes: Lot 87 was a thunderbolt design of fluorescent tubes by Dan Flavin that was one of his finest works in that it was an appropriate concept; Lots 122 and 130, large and excellent paintings by Sandro Chia (b. 1946); Lots 203 and 205, a good painting and a superb sculpture by Nancy Graves (1940 - 1995); Lot 223, a good gouache on paper by Sam Francis (1923 - 1994); Lot 242, a very good wood and paper collage by Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); Lots 279, 281A, 293, and 309, works by Andy Warhol, and Lot 299, «Fast Sketch Still Life With Abstract Painting,» a 60 by 90 inch oil on cut - out aluminum by Tom Wesselman (b. 1931), shown below.

Made with Polymer and dispersed pigment on aluminum, his work shows paint the way you might see it on a palette: painted strokes, blobs oozed out of a tube, and hues smeared together.

I machined the vortex tube out of a block of solid aluminum.